Noob Question: Can Snakes Learn Their Name?

[nycflip22]

LoL. i know this sounds stupid but can snakes learn their name or get used to my voice?

Can any reptile do that?

I used to have a Tarantula, but I never really named it.

I wonder if my corn Caesar will know its name :shrugs:

Thanks

 

[ickle_moose]

Hey Apparently what corns can 'hear' is at a level way below what humans can hear, so probably not. That doesn't stop a lot of us chatting to them though! They can almost certainly get used to your smell, one of mine is an angel when I handle her but if I let a friend try she either strikes at them or pees on them! Some people think they can't recognise us at all (except for the thought 'I hope this giant thing doesn't eat me') but I disagree. Maybe they can get used to the vibrations a particular voice makes, but as none of us can remember being a corn snake in a past life, believe whatever makes you happy

 

[Wilder]

Snakes are deaf, so if you want him to learn his name you may want to use telepathy to communicate. However, I still name my snakes and talk to them when handling. Might not matter to them, but nothing saying you can't do it anyway.

 

[krazybob]

For information on snakes hearing and learning their names read this:

http://www.anapsid.org/torrey.html

 

[Baba-Lou]

Haha I tap twice on my boas cage when i want to hold him and he stay in his hide because he hates leaving his moist hide. even though his viv is at perfect humidity lol

 

[Serpwidgets]

For information on snakes hearing and learning their names read this:

http://www.anapsid.org/torrey.html

Ya, another study I read about had said that they can detect sounds as quiet as a human conversational voice.

Not all hearing happens through external ears. One reason you can detect which direction most sounds come from (even if you have one ear plugged) is that your ear is picking up the vibrations that come through your skull, too. It is altered as it travels different ways through your skull, and these differences are use to calculate direction. (They started making "3-d sound" features for PC games a few years ago using this concept, it's cool stuff!)

 

[DinoNeill]

Most reptiles esscentially listen with their mandible no?
i.e. mammalian ear bones evolved from parts of the jaw

 

[cornsnakekid92]

I have herd of bearded drgons learning their names, so some reptiles can.

 

[krazybob]

In the late 70's they came out with a device called the Bone Fone. You can probably look them up on eBay. Anyway it played a radio and had the speakers positioned where they resonated through your collar bones. It enhanced the music but that fad died out as the Walkman was introduced.

 

[BeckyG]

Ya, another study I read about had said that they can detect sounds as quiet as a human conversational voice.

I read this, too.

I do believe my snakes can hear, as they do seem to respond to sound. However, I don't know if they have the intelligence to learn their names. That doesn't stop me from calling them by name, though.

 

[DaemoNox]

For some snakes there is a possibility of them learning their name (I dont think its them knowing its their name, but they know its about them), but I think it would be much more suprising if one day they started comming when called.